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Towering over the locals, the players drew giggles and wide-eyed stares.

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Audiences, she said, have come to her shows "wide-eyed" and with "open hearts".

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Now his son watched in wide-eyed disbelief as agents quickly shuffled him to a service elevator — and he was gone.

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Olson plays these moments of realization with a wide-eyed innocence, allowing DJ’s inner child to temporarily crack the prickly walls she’s built to protect herself from her mother’s constant failure to nurture and support her.

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Captain of the wide-eyed Victorians of 1888, Seddon led the first rugby team of its kind to leave these shores and head south, not yet as the British and Irish Lions, but precursors and pioneers.

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